[Unix] A directory tree that contains many links to files in a
master directory tree of files. Link farms save space when one is
maintaining several nearly identical copies of the same source tree —
for example, when the only difference is architecture-dependent object
files. “Let's freeze the source and then rebuild the FROBOZZ-3 and
FROBOZZ-4 link farms.” Link farms may also be used to get around
restrictions on the number of -I
(include-file directory) arguments on older C preprocessors. However, they
can also get completely out of hand, becoming the filesystem equivalent of
spaghetti code. See also
farm.